Re: [XBL] Loading and Running Scripts

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Cyril Concolato wrote:
> 
>> In Section 3.2 "Loading and Running Scripts", if author must not do 
>> what the example shows, why not simply forbidding the use of script 
>> elements inside script elements ?
> 
> It is already forbidden.
> 
> This paragraph from Section 3.2, seems to imply it's not.
>
> "For non-XML languages, if the content is inline, UAs must concatenate 
> all the textual contents of text and CDATA child nodes, and must ignore 
> any other, non-text nodes (such as elements and comments) along with all 
> their children. All descendant elements must be processed, though, 
> according to their semantics, before the XBL script block itself is 
> executed."

You are confusing the requirements on authors and the requirements on 
implementors. It is forbidden, but the above paragraph describes what a UA 
should do when it happens.


> Additioally, the presence of the example in the specifcation goes it 
> this sense. Since you say the intent is that it is forbidden, my 
> suggestions are: remove the example or replace it with a meaningful one 
> and rephrase "All descendant elements must be processed, though, 
> according to their semantics, before the XBL script block itself is 
> executed."

The example is specifically demonstrating what the UA must do with that 
non-conforming content. I can't make it conforming, because then it 
wouldn't be showing the error handling rules.

I've tried making it more obvious that the example is invalid.

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